The Collaborative Solar Research Project
The Collaborative Solar Research Project is a joint research and education initiative funded and supported by Williams, Amherst, and Smith Colleges. Each school hired one intern for the summer of 2019, and together they worked to tell the story of the Farmington Solar Project. The interns defined and strove to answer a central question by doing research, conducting interviews, and synthesizing the information they gathered. In particular, they focused on the impact the project was having on Farmington, in the hopes of learning more about how large renewable energy projects interact with the communities in which they are placed.